Online Geospatial Data Sources

This talk centered mostly on mining web-sites with phone-book and property tax information combined with vector-data for roads and bodies of water to do identification of objects in satellite imagery.

The coolest feature of the system was that they used machine learning to teach crawlers how to pull the information out of semi-structured web pages and turn it into usefully-structured XmL^?.

-- PatrickStein - 24 Mar 2005